My sidekick Hanmi Meyer and I are pleased to be posting this morning our new page Resources For Good Living. It’s a set of links, well-labeled and organized, to cool sites that help us increase our happiness and lower our consumption. While this opening date is a bit behind schedule (the summer solstice had been [...]
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Introducing: Resources For Good Living, Plus Contest With Two $50 Winners
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·consumption·contest·energy conservation·family·fun·gift certificates·green living·happiness·life·links·Oregon·outdoors·religion·renewable energy·resources·thrift·water
Easter, The Earth And The Great Turning
April 12th, 2009 · No Comments · home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion
It’s Easter morning! And warmish out! My pear trees and blueberry bushes are blossoming, our baby chicks are growing into leggy adolescents, and I’ll soon walk over to choir practice at Tabor Heights Methodist, where we’ll rehearse — with trumpet players! – for the Easter service.
It’s all so climactic. . . . diamond-cut, really. We’ve [...]
Tags: church·David Korten·Easter·Great Turning·happiness·Jesus·Joanna Macy·joy·life·music·Oregon·religion
Ashes And Ancestors
January 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, nature, spirituality & religion
Yesterday the ten of us took my mother in law Joan’s ashes to Cannon Beach here in Oregon. She had loved the beach, felt deeply alive there, and had requested her ashes be scattered there.
The day was bright but cold, way down in the 30’s with the wind-chill factor, and we huddled close like a [...]
Tags: ancestors·Cannon Beach·consumption·family·Haystack Rock·Oregon·relationships·religion·Sobonfu Some
Back To Church And Crossing Over
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · community, spirituality & religion
After being snowed and iced out the last two Sundays in a row, I finally get to go back to church this morning. My connection with God is even more important than usual to me right now because my mother-in-law Joan, in her ninth day at Providence hospital, appears to be dying. Her lungs are [...]
Tags: church·death·gari.baldi·God·life·love·relationships·religion
Fun Uses For Your Extra Hour
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · food & drink, lifestyle, simplicity
Later this week I plan to post on election results and also on how to save 40-50% on your electricity bill like my household does.
But this morning is that one single morning of the year in which daylight savings time yields us an extra hour — which we can fill as we choose. Given that [...]
Tags: consumption·daylight savings time·extra hour·green living·happiness·life·relationships·religion·time poverty
